Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Nicaragua and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Sparks. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gian Franco Pienzio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Drive Like Jehu,
Josef K,
Joe Smooth,
Ultravox,
Delta 5,
Groovy Waters,
Television Personalities,
Reuben Wilson,
The Doors,
The Dead C,
Cymande,
Peter & Gordon,
Bootsy Collins,
Metal Thangz,
Jeff Lynne,
The Martian,
The Stooges,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pylon,
Spandau Ballet,
Marine Girls,
Jimmy McGriff,
the Association,
Underground Resistance,
The Cramps,
Ossler,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Alison Limerick,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Joy Division,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Swans,
Shuggie Otis,
Glenn Branca,
Funky Four + One,
Mo-Dettes,
Q and Not U,
Cybotron,
Isaac Hayes,
D'Angelo,
Derrick Morgan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Knickerbockers,
The Gap Band,
Aloha Tigers,
Newcleus,
James White and The Blacks,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Divine Comedy,
Shoche,
Make Up,
Piero Umiliani,
Scott Walker,
Lungfish,
New Order,
Oneida,
Eurythmics,
Country Teasers,
The Fortunes,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.